Johnny Hodges Johnny Hodges And Billy Strayhorn (180g 45RPM Vinyl 2LP)

Johnny Hodges Johnny Hodges With Billy Strayhorn on 180g 45RPM 2LP from Analogue Productions: Mastered from the Original Analog Master Tapes by George Marino at Sterling Sound 

Recorded during the last decade of his long tenure with the Duke Ellington Orchestra, this album finds the great alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges' musical gifts not only intact but stronger than ever. Featuring the Ellington band with Jimmy Jones on piano and Billy Strayhorn as bandleader and arranger, it is a fascinating program of Ellington remakes, including some of the orchestra's most familiar numbers, all of which have been given subtle new orchestrations by Strayhorn and melodious new interpretations by Hodges.

 

Johnny Hodges (alto saxophone)

Billy Strayhorn (arranger, conductor, performer)

Cat Anderson (trumpet)

Shorty Baker (trumpet)

Aaron Bell (bass)

Bill Berry (trumpet)

Lawrence Brown (trombone)

Harry Carney (bass clarinet, baritone saxophone, bass saxophone)

Chuck Conors (bass trombone)

Paul Gonsalves (tenor saxophone)

Jimmy Hamilton (clarinet, tenor saxophone)

Quentin Jackson (trombone)

Jimmy Jones (piano)

Howard McGhee (trumpet)

Ed Mullens (trumpet)

Russell Procope (clarinet, alto saxophone)

Sam Woodyard (drums)